The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ The desire that is the desire of the knowledgeable and the inheritors ]

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FUTMAK.COM الفتوحات المكية: الصفحة 189 من الجزء Two

So if the divine manifestation occurred in the very image in which Adam was created, the meaning matches the meaning, and pleasure in the whole occurs, and lust spreads throughout all parts of man, outwardly and inwardly, then it is lust that is the desire of the knowledgeable and heirs. Do you not see Qays Majnun in love with Laila, how he consumed himself, as we have mentioned? Likewise, we have seen the companions of God and lovers that greater pleasure and stronger love in the presence of God than love of sex, for the divine image is more perfect in the slave than the resemblance of sex, because sex is not able to be your hearing and sight, rather its goal is to be heard by you and perceived by you, as an object, and if the servant is truly aware, he is more perfect, then his pleasure is greater. And his desire


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